“I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.

Hope is not utopian and peace is a good that can always be attained.

Hope is a powerful weapon, and no one power on earth can deprive you of.